The Federal Reserve held the line on Wednesday on its benchmark interest rates ... D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images While the Fed does not set mortgage rates, its decision has a direct impact ...

Scott Olson/Getty Images By some key measures ... days before it was set to announce an interest rate decision. At the ensuing meeting that month, the Fed decided to hold interest rates steady.

The move marked the Fed's second consecutive decision to maintain the current level of interest ... Getty Images U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, declined at a 0.3% annualized rate over ...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its key interest rate steady when it meets ... tackle with its monetary policy. The Fed's monetary policy decision Wednesday will take place amid ...

Credit cards: Even if the Fed were to make dramatic rate cuts, the interest you pay to borrow money on a credit card likely will remain sky-high. In fact, the average credit card rate actually ...

The Federal Reserve’s decision ... interest rate unchanged yet again will likely leave mortgage rates hovering near their current level as the spring homebuying season gets underway. The Fed ...

Fed chair Jerome Powell. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS /AFP via Getty Images ... rate cuts, given the economic uncertainty sparked by the Trump administration’s federal job cuts and tariffs ...

Even if the Federal Reserve takes no action, economic forecasters and investors will hang on every word of Fed Chair Jerome Powell after the central bank announces its interest rate decision.

Federal Reserve policymakers are meeting this week and are expected to announce a decision ... the Fed learning toward the latter approach, with a single quarter percentage point interest rate ...